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Unleash the Power of IaC on Heroku’s Next Generation: Terraform for Fir is Here!

We are thrilled to announce that the Heroku Terraform Provider is now fully optimized for Fir. This significant milestone allows developers to manage our next-generation platform using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

Fir is built on a modern foundation of cloud-native, open-source standards (Kubernetes) while maintaining the legendary Heroku developer experience. By combining the declarative power of Terraform with the advanced capabilities of Fir, you can now manage your applications with unprecedented control, consistency, and scalability.

Triage and Fix with Confidence: heroku run and OTel on Heroku Fir

When Production Goes Sideways

Imagine this: It’s 2 AM, your phone buzzes with an alert, and your dashboards are screaming. Production is down. Sound familiar? An automated health check has failed, and your internal dashboards are showing a spike in errors. You’ve just pushed a new release that included a critical database schema change, and a background worker task that relies on it is now failing. The web application is still running, but users are …

OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, and Fir: Putting it All Together

Modern cloud-native architectures are composed of multiple microservices running across dynamic environments. Effectively diagnosing performance issues, bottlenecks, or failures requires comprehensive observability. For this, many organizations look to OpenTelemetry, which provides a standardized approach to capturing and analyzing telemetry data.

Fir is Heroku’s next generation cloud platform, designed to offer more modern cloud-native capabilities with flexibility and scalability. It’s built on proven, open-source technologies. Traditional Heroku relied on proprietary technologies, which was appropriate at …

OpenTelemetry Basics on Heroku Fir

Heroku recently made the next generation platform – Fir – generally available. Fir builds on the strengths of the Cedar generation while introducing a new modern era of developer experience. Fir leverages modern cloud-native technologies to provide a seamless and performant platform.

One of the goals we set out to achieve with Fir is to modernize our platform’s observability architecture. Applications being written today are becoming increasingly more distributed and complex in nature. With this …

Heroku Fir: Dive into the New Platform Capabilities

For years, Heroku has been empowering developers to deploy and scale their applications with ease. Now, we’re thrilled to introduce the general availability of the next generation of the Heroku platform, codenamed Fir, launching later this month April 2025. Built on open source standards and cloud-native technologies, Fir accelerates your development like never before.

Planting New Platform Roots in Cloud Native with Fir

Cloud platforms have come a long way since Heroku first set out to empower developers. Today’s cloud native development demands even greater flexibility, openness, and scalability. A fun fact about Heroku is that we use trees to denote the generation of the platform technology stack (aka version). In the tradition of Aspen, Bamboo, and Cedar, we are introducing Fir, the latest Heroku technology stack built on open source standards and cloud native technologies.

When we …

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